Utah to apply with feds for a nuclear campus in remote Tooele County

By: Katie McKellar

Outlets: Utah News Dispatch

Published: March 28, 2026

Words: 1,828

Last Updated: 4 months ago

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Miles down a dusty dirt road — near a small cattle farm and dirt bike trails criss crossing the remote, barren desert in northwest Tooele County — Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and other state and local leaders gathered to mark another milestone in their race to make Utah the “energy capital of the world.”

With a mountain range separating it from the Great Salt Lake to the east, the area was so remote that …

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